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I have a high level question and am open to all discussions.

I work for a large ecommerce site and we are always making new landing pages, product assortments and promotions.

We have a challenge on how to retire these pages after a promotion is outdated.

What is this the MOZ community option on a way to retire, like 301 redirect to home page?

I need to estimate the traffic patterns for the last year at a minimum...preferably 2 or 3 years for this deep link:

http://www.amazon.com/Boating-Water-Sports-Outdoors/b/ref=sa_menu_btwt?ie=UTF8&node=3421331

I have ran a url comparison in open site explorer against amazon.com but want to put some traffic estimates around this.

Is there a tool in moz to do this?

Hi Team Moz,

I am working through a site cutover with an entirely new URL structure and have a bunch of pages that could not, would not or just plain don't redirect to new pages.

Steps I have taken:

• Multiple new sitemaps submitted with new URLs and the indexing looks solid

• used webmasters to remove urls with natural result listings that did not redirect and produce urls

• Completely built out new ppc campaigns with new URL structures

• contacted few major link partners

Now here is my question:

I have a pages that produce 404s that are linked to in forums, slick deals and stuff like that which will not be redirected. Is disavowing these links the correct thing to do?

thank you,

I grabbed this and put into a text file for my developer to see and it and have made sense of your corrections.

Hi community,

I am working to submit a new a new sitemap index files, where about 5 50,000 sku files will be uploaded. Webmasters is reporting that only 50k skus have been submitted.

Google Webmasters is accepting the index, however only the first file is getting read. I have 2 errors and need to know if this is the reason that the multiple files are not getting uploaded.

Errors:

| 1 |   | Warnings | Invalid XML: too many tags | Too many tags describing this tag. Please fix it and resubmi |

| 2 |   | Warnings | Incorrect namespace | Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace. | 1 |

Here is the url I am submitting: http://www.westmarine.com/sitemap/wm-sitemap-index.xml

| 1 |   |   |   |   |

I have a rookie question.

I started a campaign with the basic analytics package here.

I have about 100 keywords I am attempting to paste into the box. I have done this a few times and have seen the "your keywords have been added message" but do not see the keywords below.

Fast forward 12 hours still nothing, so I pasted in about 10 of the keywords (same format) and they took. I went to paste 10 more and nothing.

What is the best practice for uploading bulk keywords? Also, will they appear only after the 24 hours to determine the rank?

Hi guys. I have researched and discussed further.

According to your thoughts, the rel=canonical and 301 redirect in the description in the original post will conflict with each other.

In all honestly, I stated that rel=canonical is being used (I am fighting for it) but it is not in the future state plan.

I will restate a similar situation (with what I think the same outcome is). If we 301 redirect URL B (optimized in sitemap) back to URL A (system generated) without rel=canonical then ultimately we are saying "don't index URL b"???

I will verify the fine details of the internal 301 redirect. The entire process as described to me seems a bit fishy also. The developers keep saying "the site map is the only thing that will be indexed" which we know is false.

Ultimately the real solution was getting URL A to be the most optimized.

Thanks, and more to com

Hi community. Your advice and perspective is greatly appreciated.

We are doing a site replatform and I fear that serious SEO fundamentals were overlooked and I am not getting straight answers to a simple question: How are we communicating to search engines the single URL we want indexed?

Backstory: Current site has major duplicate content issues. Rel-canonical is not used. There are currently 2 versions of every category and product detail page. Both are indexed in certain instances. A 60 page audit has recommends rel=canonical at least 10 times for the similar situations an ecommerce site has with dupe urls/content.

New site: We are rolling out 2 URLS AGAIN!!! URL A is an internal URL generated by the systerm. We have developed this fancy dynamic sitemap generator which looks/maps to URL A and creates a SEO optimized URL that I call URL B. URL B is then inserted into the site map and the sitemap is communicated externally to google. URL B does an internal 301 redirect back to URL A...so in an essence, the URL a customer sees is not the same as what we want google to see.

I still think there is potential for duplicate indexing. What do you think?

Is rel=canonical the answer?

In my research on this site, past projects and google I think the correct solution is this on each customer facing category and pdp:

The head section (With the optimized Meta Title and Meta Description) needs to have the rel-canonical pointing to URL B
example of the meta area of URL A:

What do you think? I am open to all ideas and I can provide more details if needed.